Wigmore Hall Learning Spring 2017 Series Brochure

January – March 2017

Early Years Families Schools Young People Community Behind the Music

WELCOME

Welcome to the Spring 2017 Series! We’re excited to present a wealth of events across our programme, starting the year with the first in a very special series of talks by master pianist Alfred Brendel.

CALENDAR OF E VENT S

January – March 2017

Fri 6 Jan

Artists in Conversation

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Sat 7 Jan

Alfred Brendel Lecture

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Tue 10 Jan

Chamber Tots

Thu 12 Jan

Introduction to Music commences

Sat 14 Jan

Family Concert: The Fairy Queen

Tue 17 Jan

Choir for families living with dementia commences

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We’re also delighted to welcome the Donald Grant Quartet and former Wigmore Hall Trainee Music Leader Lucy Drever for a Key Stage 1 Schools Concert which delves into the stories and landscapes that influence Scottish folk music.

Sat 21 Jan

Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas

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Wed 25 Jan

Chamber Tots

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We hope you enjoy the series, and look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall.

Thu 2 Feb

For Crying Out Loud!

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Sat 4 Feb

Family Day: Handel and Hendrix

Sun 5 Feb

Takács Quartet Masterclass

Tue 14 Feb

Chamber Tots

Musical Portraits Band commences

Sat 18 Feb

Chamber Tots

Wed 22 Feb

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

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Thu 23 Feb

National Young String Quartet Weekend commences

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Sat 25 Feb

Pre-Concert Talk

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Wed 1 Mar

Pre-Concert Performance

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Sat 11 Mar

Relaxed Concert

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Pre-Concert Talk

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Wed 15 Mar

Chamber Tots

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Sat 18 Mar

CAVATINA Family Concert

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Fri 24 Mar

Schools Concert: Folk Up North

Wigmore Study Group commences

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Sat 25 Mar

Artists in Conversation

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Tue 28 Mar

For Crying Out Loud!

For families, The Sixteen and puppeteers from Box Tale Soup perform their own retelling of The Fairy Queen, and we’re off to the newly refurbished Handel & Hendrix museum to explore two musicians separated by 200 years and just one wall!

For our Community programme, we launch our first event as part of Disabled Access Day, as well as a brand new choir for people living with dementia and their friends, families and carers.

Daisy Swift Head of Learning

We would like to thank the following for their support of the Wigmore Hall Learning programme. Their involvement is greatly appreciated and essential in continuing our work.

Donors and Sponsors The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust Arts Council England CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation The Howard de Walden Estate Hyde Park Place Estate Charity John Lyon’s Charity

The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity Number: 1024838 Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG

The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation London Stock Exchange Group Foundation George Meyer Michael Watson Charitable Trust

Milton Damerel Trust Valerie O’Connor Spencer Hart Charitable Trust The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity Stuart and Bianca Roden The Sampimon Trust

Partners Central London Clinical Commissioning Group Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group Haringey Music Service Havering Music School Jewish Care

The Stewarts Law Foundation

Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service

The Tertis Foundation in memory of Lillian Tertis

Westminster Adult Services

SE Franklin Charitable Trust No 3

And several anonymous donors

Tri-borough Music Hub West London Clinical Commissioning Group

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Early Years For Crying Out Loud!

Hear outstanding performances by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and their babies under one to enjoy together in a relaxed and accommodating environment.

Thursday 2 February 11.00am – 11.45am 12.30pm – 1.15pm Tuesday 28 March 11.00am – 11.45am 12.30pm – 1.15pm £7.50 per adult (babies come free!)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Chamber Tots Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close, presented by our experienced Chamber Tots music leaders alongside emerging chamber ensembles.

First Time Booker Offer: Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

In Space

Tuesday 10 January 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years) Wednesday 15 March 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years)

On the Farm

Wednesday 25 January 12.30pm (1 – 2 years) & 2.00pm (3 – 5 years) Tuesday 14 February 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years)

In the Forest

Saturday 18 February 10.15am (1 – 2 years) & 11.45am (3 – 5 years) All workshops are 1 hour in duration Maximum 3 child, 2 adult tickets per booking Children £5 Adults £3

Photograph © Benjamin Ealovega

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Families Saturday 14 January 11.00am – 12 noon

Saturday 4 February 10.30am – 3.30pm

Saturday 18 March 11.00am – 12 noon

Family Concert: The Fairy Queen

Family Day: Handel and Hendrix

CAVATINA Family Concert : Piatti Quartet

Explore the musical worlds of George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix with the help of Handel & Hendrix in London Composer in Residence Hunter Coblentz, and guitarist Jack Ross. Visit the rooms they lived in and discover what inspired them before creating your own music, rounding off the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Join the award-winning Piatti Quartet, one of the UK’s most exciting young string quartets, for an interactive family concert which explores the wonderful world of chamber music, featuring works by some of the best-loved composers of all time, including Haydn, Ravel and Beethoven.

For ages 6 plus

Noel Byrne & Antonia Christophers actors Katy Hill soprano Stuart Young bass David Miller archlute

For ages 5 plus

Deep in the forest, fairies await...

Join puppetry and physical theatre group, Box Tale Soup, and members of world-renowned choir The Sixteen to discover Shakespeare’s enchanting tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Be transported to a world of magic and mishap in which the story is brought to life through puppetry, theatre and music from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.

A Fairy Queen resource pack, featuring creative activities inspired by the story and characters, is available via the Wigmore Hall website.

Children £8 Adults £10

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For ages 5 plus

Children £8 Adults £10

In partnership with Handel & Hendrix in London Children £10 Adults £15 Photograph © Box Tale Soup

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber music to young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted to present this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.

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Schools

Chamber Zone

Free concert tickets and pre-concert workshops for school groups – for more information about workshops contact the Learning department on learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk or 020 7258 8240.

Friday 24 March 11.00am – 12 noon

Key Stage 1 Schools Concert: Folk Up North

See pages 14 – 15 for forthcoming concerts.

Join the Donald Grant Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever for a concert exploring Scottish folk music. We delve into exciting and notorious stories, and explore how the unique Scottish landscape influences its music. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 1 curriculum, bookers also receive a teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert.

Juice, Photograph @ Morag Galloway

Summer Preview: Dates for your Diary

£3.50 Please book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240

Photograph © Simon Jay Price

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Tuesday 25 April 11.00am – 12 noon

Wednesday 12 July 11.00am – 12 noon

SEN Schools Concert: Juice

Key Stage 2 Schools Concert: My Iris

Explore the voice alongside vocal ensemble Juice and presenter Sam Glazer in a dynamic and engaging concert. Expect a wide range of classical, contemporary and folk music, with lots of audience participation in both singing and body percussion. This concert is ideal for SEN students of all ages and bookers will receive a teachers’ resource pack in advance of the concert.

This is Trish Clowes’s jazz organ quartet with a twist! Come and experience music that conjures vivid colour and imagery, with links to literature and history, in this concert presented by Pete Letanka. Trish’s pieces juxtapose startling melodies and ethereal whispers with intricate textures and earthy grooves. This is the perfect way to celebrate the end of the school year.

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In the Community…

Our Partner Schools Programme is a new approach to working with schools; in partnership with our four partner music education hubs we are collaborating with four primary schools keen to develop their cultural offer, co-creating a programme of opportunities over a three-year period which meets their needs and supports them to place music at the heart of their ethos.

In 2016, 180 pupils in Year 2 and Year 5 from Risley Avenue Primary School in Haringey took part in Connecting Tunes, a creative composition project working with composer and music leader Kerry Andrew and the Heath Quartet.

Inspired by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, Kerry, alongside participating children and their families, collected childhood songs from around the world, using them to compose a new piece – featuring seven different languages – called Songchants, which the pupils performed at Wigmore Hall alongside the Heath Quartet.

Workshops and Training Bring Wigmore Hall Learning to your classroom with interactive workshops linked to concerts.

Workshops are available for all key stages and we work closely with your school to tailor the session in order to meet the needs of your pupils and your scheme of work.

We offer workshops linked to:

• Chamber Zone concerts (free) See pages 14 –15 for forthcoming concerts • Schools concerts (there is a charge for these workshops, but they are free to SEN settings and subsidised for state schools)

Early Years Training Sessions in your setting Wigmore Hall Learning can design bespoke early years music training sessions to meet the needs of your nursery, centre or school.

For more information, email learning@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7528 8240.

Photograph © Benjamin Ealovega

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Young People Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 February 11.00am – 3.30pm

Musical Portraits Band

For young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Ceri Black at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email ceri@turtlekeyarts.org.uk.

Free (application required)

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

National Young String Quartet Weekend Thursday 23 – Sunday 26 February

Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Young String Quartet Weekend, which provides world-class coaching from chamber music experts such as the Carducci String Quartet, as well as workshops and performance opportunities.

The Weekend is open to school age and conservatoire level quartets. If you play in a string quartet and would like to take part in this unique event, email rwheal@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.

Wednesday 1 March 5.45pm – 6.45pm

Pre-Concert Performance

Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Young String Quartet Weekend with a performance given by quartets that took part this year.

Free (ticket required)

Photograph © Benjamin Ealovega

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Chamber Zone

Free concert tickets for 8 – 25 year-olds and school groups. Your ticket gets you a free ice cream and free programme for the concert!

School groups can also take part in free preconcert workshops – see page 11 for details.

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone for full details.

Supported by the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust

Monday 13 February 1.00pm

Tuesday 7 March 7.30pm

Alice Coote & Julius Drake Nico Muhly, Dominick Argento, Schumann

Kathryn Rudge, James Baillieu & Gary Pomeroy Howells, Quilter, Denis Browne, Gurney, Bridge

Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan Beethoven, Barber, Britten

Sunday 29 January 3.00pm

Sunday 19 February 3.00pm

Saturday 25 March 1.00pm

Louise Alder & Gary Matthewman Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Debussy, Puccini, Verdi

Thomas Adès, Nicolas Hodges & Calder Quartet Thomas Adès, Lutosławski, Walton

Tuesday 31 January 7.30pm

Sunday 19 February 7.30pm

Monday 27 March 7.30pm

Gould Piano Trio Schubert

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Szymanowski, Fauré, Françaix, Antheil

Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Polina Leschenko Webern, Schumann, Bartók, Ravel

Thursday 2 February 7.30pm

Thursday 23 February 7.30pm

Elizabeth Watts & Malcolm Martineau Schubert

Artemis Quartet & Maria João Pires Beethoven, Bartók, Schumann

Monday 6 February 7.30pm

Saturday 25 February 1.00pm

Takács Quartet Beethoven

JACK Quartet Xenakis

Wednesday 8 February 1.00pm

Sunday 26 February 3.00pm

Vienna Piano Trio Haydn, Ravel, Brahms

Britten Sinfonia Stravinsky, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Oliver Knussen, Ravel

Nicholas Phan & Myra Huang Programme to include Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Beethoven

Monday 23 January 1.00pm

Sunday 12 February 7.30pm

Wednesday 1 March 7.30pm

Roderick Williams & Roger Vignoles Fauré, Caplet, Honegger, Poulenc

Belcea Quartet Shostakovich, Schubert

Carducci String Quartet Haydn, Shostakovich, Webern, Beethoven

Forthcoming concerts…

Friday 6 January 7.30pm Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith Monday 9 January 7.30pm Danish String Quartet Haydn, Schnittke, Beethoven Saturday 14 January 7.30pm

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Friday 27 January 7.30pm

Photograph: www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Tim Mead & James Baillieu Programme to include Howells, Vaughan Williams, Britten

Photograph © www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Community

Photograph © www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Disabled Access Day: Relaxed Concert

Starting Tuesday 17 January 10.30am – 12.30pm

A new choir at Wigmore Hall

This relaxed concert is open to everyone and provides a special opportunity to explore music in an informal environment. Join presenter Lucy Drever and Open Academy / Wigmore Hall Learning Fellowship Ensemble Cavendish Winds, find out about our 115 years of history, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee after the concert.

For families living with dementia

Music for Life, our programme for people living with dementia and their carers, has been providing creative musical opportunities in care homes since 1993. The Music for Life programme now incorporates growing strands of work for people with dementia still living at home.

As part of building our dementia-friendly community, we are very excited to be creating a new choir, taking place on Tuesday mornings, which will be open to people living with dementia and their families, friends or carers. Together members of the choir, led by singer and music leader Isabelle Adams, will decide on the music that they learn, as well as the group’s name, and we will invite family and friends to informal performances. The choir will also be an opportunity to meet new people, including members of Wigmore Hall staff.

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Saturday 11 March 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Free (ticket required)

If you are, or someone you know is, interested in joining the choir, please call Hermione Jones on 020 7258 8246 or email hjones@wigmore-hall.org.uk.

For more information on Music for Life see page 17.

In partnership with Westminster Arts

In the Community…

We believe that dementia should not stop people from continuing to pursue activities and interests they have enjoyed their whole life, or from trying new things. With the right support people can live well with dementia, and Wigmore Hall is committed to this goal: helping to build a dementiafriendly society and enabling people living with dementia to access high-quality, lifeenriching musical experiences.

Music for Life is a pioneering programme that brings together professional musicians, care staff, and people living with dementia through participatory music sessions. Activity takes place in residential homes, extra care settings and day centres, engaging people who can be isolated and disempowered as a result of the advanced stage of their dementia.

Over the course of eight weeks, specially trained musicians use improvisation to create music alongside people living with dementia and their care staff. Through creative communication, participants are given freedom and space to express themselves and make their own musical choices. Music for Life aims to enhance the quality of life of its participants and demonstrate to care staff the emotional, social and physical potential of people in their care.

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Behind the Music Study Programme

Saturday 7 January 2.30pm – 3.45pm

Alfred Brendel Lecture: Schubert’s Last Sonatas

Photograph © Barbara Rigon

Friday 6 January 6.00pm – 6.45pm

Artists in Conversation

Vijay Iyer, Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Artist in Residence, discusses his residency and life as a performer with journalist and broadcaster Kevin LeGendre ahead of the evening concert. £4

There are, within the output of some composers, triads of compositions that bring certain classes of works to a conclusion. Schubert’s final three piano sonatas belong to the handful of such peak achievements. It took a long time until players and audiences discovered these pieces. What had kept them away from us until a few decades ago? What are their distinguishing features? What happens when great composers create a number of works next to one another? And are these works, conceived so close to Schubert’s death, documents of a musical farewell?

Join master pianist Alfred Brendel to explore this fascinating topic. £20

Introduction to Music

Thursday 12 January 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 19 January 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 26 January 4.45pm – 6.00pm Thursday 2 February 4.45pm – 6.00pm

The 48: Bach’s Well –Tempered Clavier

The idea of two books of preludes and fugues, each moving through all the keys, both major and minor, may sound unpromising at first but begin to listen or play and you encounter a universe of wonders. Bach achieves in this music a wonderful synthesis of highly cultivated technique and direct emotional utterance, the variety of styles and expression is simply breath-taking.

Join Roy Stratford to explore the techniques of Bach’s extraordinary craft, from double and triple fugue to invertible counterpoint, and unlock a musical treasure that will never cease to delight.

Series ticket price £30

Photograph © www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 21 January 10.00am – 3.30pm

Come and Sing: Dido and Aeneas

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring Henry Purcell’s well-loved opera Dido and Aeneas. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £25 Concessions £19

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Sunday 5 February 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Photograph © Benjamin Ealovega

Takács Quartet Masterclass

Haydn Piano Trios

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Wednesday 22 February 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Saturday 25 February 6.00pm – 6.45pm

Sir András Schiff Masterclass

Xenakis Day: Pre-Concert Talk

£20

Photograph © Brian Voce

Friday 24 March 3.00pm – 6.00pm Wednesday 29 March 3.00pm – 6.00pm Friday 31 March 3.00pm – 6.00pm

In his book about Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist Edward Dusinberre describes the exhilaration and spiritual rewards of performing these great works.

He and his colleagues pass on their experience and insights into Beethoven’s art to two postgraduate student ensembles in a masterclass certain to enlighten and inspire.

Sir András Schiff’s eloquence as a teacher and profound insights as a thinker about music make his masterclass sessions irresistible to participants and audiences alike. For each of his three masterclasses, which run throughout the season, an outstanding young musician chosen

by Sir András himself explores repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert.

Wigmore Study Group

Join Tom Service in an exploration of the unique sound world of Iannis Xenakis before hearing works for strings and piano in the evening concert. £4

Saturday 11 March 6.00pm – 6.45pm

Explore some of Haydn’s unjustly neglected masterpieces in three afternoons devoted to his piano trios. Reflecting Haydn’s mature genius, these works are full of his finest keyboard writing, improvisatory in style, both playful and profound.

Haydn’s piano trios were dedicated to several of the most talented female pianists of his day, demanding exceptional artistry and skill.

Composer Julian Philips investigates these wonderful works with pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60 Includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by the Eggner Piano Trio on 31 March.

Saturday 25 March 6.00pm – 6.45pm

Artists in Conversation

As part of a day celebrating his work, Thomas Adès is joined by Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly to discuss his inspiration and life as a composer. £4

Pre-Concert Talk

Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano technician Peter Salisbury and composer Julian Anderson discuss the ways in which a repertoire, an instrument and an acoustic are inextricably linked, as well as the relationship between Wigmore Hall and an old Bechstein concert grand in terms of history, aesthetics and artistry. £4 20

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Booking Information

Public booking opens on Tuesday 8 November

(booking for schools concerts already open) We recommend early booking for Chamber Tots and Behind the Music events.

Wigmore Hall Box Office 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: 020 7935 2141

Car Parking Online Bookings Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can select your own seat.

Booking Fee Schools concerts and events with a ticket price of more than £4 incur a £1 booking fee.

Tickets for Children and Concessions

Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Where a concession ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed. A child is anyone under the age of 16.

Box Office Hours

Restaurant

7 days a week: 10.00am – 8.30pm Days without an evening concert: 10.00am – 5.00pm No advance booking during the 30 minutes prior to performance.

Telephone Bookings 7 days a week: 10.00am – 7.00pm Days without an evening concert: 10.00am – 5.00pm

Postal Bookings Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit. Tickets will then be sent by post.

Full information about restaurant opening hours can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling 020 7258 8292.

There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five-minute walk from the Hall.

Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore event participants and ticket-buyers a 50% discount on their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact Box Office or visit our website for further details.

Disabled Access and Facilities

Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter Mark from ‘Attitude is Everything’.

Facilities for Families

For full details on access and facilities contact us on access@wigmore-hall.org.uk or 020 7935 2141.

There is space to leave buggies and scooters as well as baby-changing.

Map

Wigmore Hall is proud to meet the Family Arts Standards, reflecting its commitment to offering family-friendly events and spaces.

Table reservations can be made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

Transport Tubes: The closest underground stations are Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you.

Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: access@wigmore-hall.org.uk Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

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Director: John Gilhooly OBE, Hon FRAM, Hon RCM, Hon FGS, Hon FRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity Number 1024838

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